WIRED NAMES JOE BROWN NEW YORK EDITOR

NEW YORK, February 25, 2013 – Joe Brown has been named New York Editor of WIRED, Editor-in-Chief Scott Dadich announced earlier today. Brown has been editor of Gizmodo since 2011.

“Joe is a smart, aggressive, agenda-setting editor,” said Dadich. “We could not be happier that he’s joining us in New York.”

Brown will have a broad brief at WIRED. In addition to running Wired.com in the morning East Coast hours, he will work on social media strategies for the brand. Brown will also play a key role in building and managing a New York edit office that will include a senior editor for the magazine, and writers to provide coverage for WIRED Business and Gadget Lab.

This marks a return to WIRED for Brown. He worked in the San Francisco edit offices from 2007 to 2010 as deputy to Mark McClusky, who was then a senior editor in charge of products and gear for the magazine. Brown and McClusky, now editor of Wired.com, will be teamed again.

“Joe is the perfect editor for the job,” said McClusky. “He hits the ground running from the moment he wakes up and has an extraordinary sense of what’s going to be news, whether it’s technology, business, science, entertainment, or design.”

“I consider WIRED home,” said Brown. “The appeal of coming back to work with Scott and the team he’s put in place is irresistible.”

Brown, who also has also worked at Popular Science, is a Cornell graduate, and a native New Yorker.